Work, work, and more work.

June 7th, 2007 / posted by Jake

June 1st marked my 1 year anniversary at my current job.  Rather than give “highlights” about my job (its work), I thought I’d give highlights about public transportation.  Yes, thats right.  I want to talk about public transportation.  Why? Because I take lightrail to and from work everyday.  You see my work reimburses me if I utilize the public transportation system, instead of public parking.  On the one hand it makes sense – parking downtown literally costs anywhere from $12-$18 a day and that adds up.  Lightrail costs $4.00 a day.  The part that doesn’t make sense is the fact that….

LIGHT RAIL SUCKS A FATTY.

Ya it really does.  Here are some highlights I’ve been able to experience in riding lightrail 2x a day.

- I had a 70 year old, homeless black guy threaten to “kick my black ass” if I didn’t get out of the way.  I politely responded and told him I’d move when the lightrail stopped.  Needless to say,  he never followed through.

- I watched a drunk, deaf guy flip off everyone in the train as he walked past them repeatedly.  This was right after he pretended to mount a motorcycle and “ride” up and down the aisle.  I offered to pump his gas but…

- What do you get when a lightrail honks its horn for at least 1/2 a block straight at a car on the tracks?  An idiot blonde FEMALE driver in a BMW that gets plowed by lightrail.  Yah thats right. Move.

- Did you know more people than you think pick their nose and eat it?  I think everyone on the trains i ride on do.  Except me of course.

- Have you ever seen a man quickly push his way past women and steal the last seat, forcing about 4 women to stand?  It’s great.  I’m always the last man standing, amongst 1/2 a train of standing women that is.  The rest of the men, i mean pigs, are sitting.

- This homeless woman had problemssssssssss.  She was screaming at the top of her lungs that she was raped by the entire 2005 Sacramento Kings team and that the Maloof brothers swore to pay her $millions to keep quiet.  She also said that she’s Nelson Mandella’s former wife and that he gave her some sort of secret key. blah blah blah.  Needless to say a few stops later, she was quickly escorted off by security.

- Surprisingly, on lightrail itself, i have only had a beggar ask me for something.  He asked me for money to catch a bus and so I offered him a spare $2.00 ticket i had, which would work for the bus.  He happily took it and then at the very next stop he started asking everyone for money so he could catch a bus.  Seeing as how it was the end of my day, I wasn’t in the mood to be played.  I yelled at him saying, “you going to play me like that? I gave you my ticket and you are hustling others still? Give me my ticket back.” He of course “forgot” that he had got it and I argued back that he better give me my ticket back because he was a useless ——-.  He refused and said it was now his and at the next stop he jumped off.  Idiot. Useless idiot.

Yes i’ve had a few choice experiences on lightrail in the 1 year I’ve been riding.  I think I’m going to ask my work if i can have the additional 2 1/2 hours a day it adds to my regular 8 hour day back.  Gotta love my 8-5.  It starts at about 6:45 and ends at 6:45.  Stupid lightrail.

Tags: lightrail, work